http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/issue/feedCanadian Journal of Sociology2016-10-03T16:17:55-06:00Dr. Kevin Haggertycjscopy@ualberta.caOpen Journal SystemsCanadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28298Editorial – Contentious Mobilities/Canadian Mobilities2016-10-03T16:17:55-06:00Stephanie Soderosbs105@mun.caNicholas Scottnascott@sfu.caThis special issue of Canadian Journal of Sociology on ‘Contentious Mobilities’ showcases Canadian scholarship that investigates mobilities in the context of unequal power relations. Mobilities become contentious when they confront the systematic exclusion of others, advance unconventional mobile practices and defy or destabilize existing power relations. Increasingly, mobilities are contentious in relation to rapidly changing economies, societies and environments. This special issue stages an overdue encounter between the mobilities paradigm and research on sociopolitical contention. Simultaneously, this special issue addresses an empirical gap, featuring Canada as a prolific and influential site for leading-edge research. Five key themes emerge amongst the diverse papers in this issue: life and death, employment-related mobility, intersectionality/in(visibility), governance, and automobility. Further, we identify five potential topics for Canadian mobilities, including climate change, disaster, technology and travel, the good city and methods.2016-09-30T01:41:52-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28288Battling Blind Spots: Hours of Service Regulations and Contentious Mobilities in the BC-Based Long Haul Trucking Industry2016-09-30T01:41:53-06:00Amie McLeanamie_mclean@sfu.caThis article explores arenas of contention in which long haul truckers’ workplace mobilities are enmeshed. I critically analyze the grounded implications of Hours of Service (HoS) regulations, a primary regulatory mechanism for addressing the dangers posed by truck driver fatigue. I argue that HoS regulations enforce a neoliberal individualization of responsibility that fails to account for industry power dynamics or truckers’ lived experiences of labour mobility. These dynamics add to concerns about the potential exploitation of migrant truck drivers, including through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Inasmuch as they fail to address the classed, gendered and racialized dynamics of trucking mobilities, HoS regulations are implicated in perpetuating hierarchies of power in the industry. As such, they are inadequate and – in contextually specific ways – counterproductive to promoting employment equity or overall public safety. These issues are particularly evident in the contentious politics of blame concerning heavy truck-involved collisions.2016-09-30T01:41:53-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28261Hitchhiking and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Billboards on the Highway of Tears2016-09-30T01:41:55-06:00Katherine A Mortonkam813@mun.caWhether too much or the wrong kind, constraining Indigenous mobility is a preoccupation of the province of British Columbia. The province remains focused on controlling Indigenous mobility and constructing forms of contentious mobility, such as hitchhiking, as bad or risky. In Northwestern British Columbia hitchhiking is particularly common among Indigenous women. Hitchhiking as a mode of contentious mobility is categorically named as “bad mobility” and is frequently explained away as risky behaviour. Mobility of Indigenous women, including hitchhiking is deeply gendered and racialized. The frequent description of missing and murdered Indigenous women as hitchhikers or drifters fosters a sense that “choosing” a bad mode of mobility alone is the reason that these women disappear. This paper will identify how hitchhiking, framed as contentious mobility supports the construction of missing and murdered Indigenous women as willing, available and blame-worthy victims. Morality is tangled up with mobility in the province’s responses to Indigenous women who hitchhike. This paper engages in a critical discourse analysis of billboards posted by the province of British Columbia along the Highway of Tears that attempt to prevent women from hitchhiking. This paper will identify the point of convergence between contentious mobility, violence against Indigenous women and larger questions of colonialism and the negotiation of racialized and gendered power imbalances through the province’s constraining of Indigenous mobility. Résumé Excessives ou mal ciblées, les tentatives visant à restreindre la mobilité des Autochtones dans la province de Colombie-Britannique sont une source de préoccupation. La province s’efforce à contrôler la mobilité des Autochtones et à présenter les formes de mobilité controversées, tel l’auto-stop, comme des pratiques indésirables ou risquées. Au Nord-Ouest de la Colombie-Britannique, l’auto-stop est une pratique tout particulièrement courante chez les femmes autochtones. L’auto-stop en tant que mode de mobilité controversé est désigné comme « mobilité indésirable » et est fréquemment considéré comme un comportement à risque. La mobilité des femmes autochtones, incluant la pratique de l’auto-stop, a une dimension profondément sexuée et ethnique. La description fréquente de femmes autochtones enlevées ou assassinées comme étant des auto-stoppeuses ou des fugueuses alimente une perception selon laquelle le « choix » d’un mode de transport risqué est l’unique raison pour laquelle ces femmes ont disparu. Cet article discute de comment le fait de présenter la pratique de l’auto-stop comme un moyen de transport à haut risque encourage la perception des femmes autochtones enlevées ou assassinées comme des victimes consentantes et responsables de leur sort. La réponse de la province aux femmes autochtones pratiquant l’auto-stop est un discours sur la mobilité présenté sur un ton moralisateur. Cet article présente une analyse critique du discours des panneaux affichés par la province de la Colombie-Britannique le long de la route des pleurs qui tentent de dissuader les femmes de faire de l’auto-stop. Cet article détermine le point de convergence entre la mobilité controversée, la violence faite aux femmes autochtones et des questions plus vastes sur le colonialisme et la négociation du déséquilibre des pouvoirs liés à l’ethnie et au sexe par le biais de la contrainte de la province sur la mobilité des autochtones.2016-09-30T01:41:55-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28275Worker Movement as a Union Issue: An Examination of Collective Bargaining Agreements in the Construction Sector in Alberta, Canada2016-09-30T01:41:57-06:00Susan Cakecake@ualberta.caThe fluctuating expansion of oil sands development in northern Alberta, Canada has led to employers hiring a large number of mobile workers. The working conditions for some of these mobile workers are modulated in part by unions through their role in negotiating of collective bargaining agreements. Using a social reproductive framework, this study has two main findings: through collective agreements mobile workers are treated as a distinct category of worker, and there is a simultaneous expansion of workplace rules and regulations alongside a divide of the workplace from the home. The resulting expansion of the union regulated space in contrast to the divide of workplace from the home challenges union revitalization efforts, while also reaffirming traditional gendered experiences of mobility.2016-09-30T01:41:57-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28211Mining as Canadian Nation-Building: Contentious Citizenship Regimes on the Move2016-09-30T01:41:58-06:00Max Chewinskimax.chewinski@gmail.comThis article presents Canadian mining abroad as an imperial, nation-building practice that can be traced to state discourses. In analyzing state discourses, it is argued that an ideal citizenship regime is constructed, in part, due to a specific set of values and identities. This citizenship regime is corporate in nature, and operates as a vehicular idea that facilitates the flow of travelling technocrats, minerals and capital by reshaping the policies and practices of host nations. In the discourses examined, it becomes clear that the Canadian state actively forms both the conditions for the expansion of nation-building projects and actively participates in securing and promoting contentious mining projects. By mobilizing corporate citizenship, Canada remains committed to managing resistance movements that pose a risk to accumulation instead of addressing corporate impunity. The article concludes by considering how MiningWatch Canada and the movements they support create fissures in the corporate citizenship regime.2016-09-30T01:41:58-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28256Contentious mobilities and Cheap(er) Labour: Temporary Foreign Workers in a New Brunswick Seafood Processing Community2016-09-30T01:41:59-06:00Christine Knottchristine.knott@mun.caCanada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is highly contentious. Particularly contentious are those parts of the program that have allowed for exploitative labour practices and the replacement of Canadian workers. Mobility for employment has been increasing, and researchers have focused on different types of mobile workers ranging from international (including the TFWP) to intra-provincial migrants, often in isolation from each other. Less research has focused on multiple mobilities within one industry to understand how and why labour force composition and employee mobility patterns change over time. Also under researched is why demand exists for TFWs in areas with high unemployment. This paper uses a case study of the seafood processing industry (both wild and farmed) in a rural region of New Brunswick to explore this industry’s claims about labour shortages and serial reliance on differently mobile labour forces over time. It draws on findings from a review of relevant documents and ethnographic fieldwork including interviews. Using the historical changes in the (im)mobility patterns of processing workers in this region, this paper highlights how the increased use of the TFWP by seafood processing companies is tied to manufactured raced and gendered employer practices.2016-09-30T01:41:59-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28215“Parks Not Parkways”: Contesting Automobility in a Small Canadian City2016-09-30T01:42:00-06:00Jim Conleyjconley@trentu.caOle B. Jensenobje@create.aau.dkThis case study of a dispute over a project to construct a road through green space in a small Canadian city brings together two hitherto separate theoretical approaches to mobility disputes: "culture stories" and "regimes of engagement". The stories opponents tell, in interviews and documents, concern their mobilization against the project, the value of environmental preservation, and the costs of expanded automobility, culminating in contrasting visions of urban development. The culture stories approach examines how stories varied on a narrative dimension of informational formats, temporal structures, causal mechanisms, and plot institutionalization, and a place dimension of relational geography and physical attributes. The pragmatic conditions of the different narratives of contestation, and of the challenges faced by opponents are analysed in terms of the relation between regimes of engagement: a regime of familiarity based in slow mobilities, a regime of planned action based in automobility, and the clash of industrial and green orders of worth in a regime of justification2016-09-30T01:42:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28171Pettiman, Dominic, Infinite Distraction: Paying Attention to Social Media.2016-09-30T01:42:01-06:00Jim Cosgravejimcosgrave@trentu.ca2016-09-30T01:42:01-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28174Brekhus, Wayne H, Culture and Cognition: Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality.2016-09-30T01:42:01-06:00Carmen Michael Grillocmgrillo@yorku.ca2016-09-30T01:42:01-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28185Scott, Susie, Negotiating Identity: Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Social Identity.2016-09-30T01:42:01-06:00Lisa Thomsonlisa.thomson@unb.ca2016-09-30T01:42:01-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28190Davis, Georgiann, Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis.2016-09-30T01:42:02-06:00Morgan LeFay Holmesmholmes@wlu.caJanik Bastien-Charleboisaislingtheaoic@gmail.com2016-09-30T01:42:02-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28223Casper, Monica J. and Eric Wertheimer, eds., Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life.2016-09-30T01:42:02-06:00Christopher Powellchris.powell@ryerson.ca2016-09-30T01:42:02-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28257Jennifer S. Singh, Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science.2016-09-30T01:42:02-06:00Anne E. McGuireanne.mcguire@utoronto.ca2016-09-30T01:42:02-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28272Marland, Alex, Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control.2016-09-30T01:42:03-06:00Patricia Colleen Cormackpcormack@stfx.ca2016-09-30T01:42:03-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28278Bauman, Zygmunt and Raud, Rein, Practices of Selfhood.2016-09-30T01:42:03-06:00Tanya Titchkoskytanya.titchkosky@utoronto.ca2016-09-30T01:42:03-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28285Edkins, Jenny, Face Politics.2016-09-30T01:42:03-06:00Justin Everett Cobain Tetraultjtetraul@ualberta.ca2016-09-30T01:42:03-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociologyhttp://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/28324Books Received/ Livres réçus2016-09-30T01:42:03-06:00Tara Milbrandtmilbrand@ualberta.ca2016-09-30T01:42:03-06:00Copyright (c) 2016 Canadian Journal of Sociology